Erin Coughlin Hollowell lives at the end of the road in Homer, Alaska. She has published two full-length poetry collections: Pause Traveler and Every Atom. Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines. She teaches in the UAA MFA Program and is the Executive Director of Storyknife Writers Retreat.

Susanna J. Mishler is the author of Termination Dust, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her poems appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska and earns her living as an electrician.

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell's most recent book is You Are No Longer in Trouble. She won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation. A recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching, she teaches language arts at a school housed inside a juvenile detention facility.

Marie Tozier is an Inupiaq poet who lives in Nome, Alaska. Her first book, Open the Dark, is soon to be published. She is a graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage low-residency MFA program. Tozier writes and teaches with emphasis on memory, place, and the truth of one's own journey.

Emily Wall is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alaska. She holds an MFA in poetry and her work has been published most recently in Prairie Schooner and AQR. She has two books: Liveaboard and Freshly Rooted with a third book, Breaking Into Air: Birth Poems, forthcoming.